Political barriers of implementing carbon markets in Japan: A Public Choice analysis and the empirical evidence before and after the Fukushima nuclear disaster

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 211-235

  Rudolph, Sven ^a   Schneider, Friedrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Climate policy; Emissions trading; Japan; Public Choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875723166     PISSN: 1432847X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10018-012-0049-z     Document Type: Article

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